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Word: gayest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paris, on the other hand, theater is down, ballet and opera were never up, and most of the city's celebrated naughty nighteries have become intolerably cheap and outrageously expensive. Yet as far as the travel guides are concerned, Paris is, was, and ever will be the gayest city in the world, while London is a stuffy place filled with stiff upper lips, bad food and sensible shoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: YOU CAN'T TELL THE COUNTRIES WITHOUT A BOOK | 4/29/1966 | See Source »

...banners fluttered from the flagpoles in the darkness overhead, and through the doors of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art surged the opening-night black-tie throng. To celebrate the first evening of spring, girls wore their gayest dresses - flaring Pucci pajamas, metal-petaled above-the-knee A-lines, the newest see-through evening gowns. The occasion for all this festivity? The Modern's salute to a painter who has been dead 114 years, Joseph M. W. Turner, the 19th century romantic saint who so believed in communion with nature that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: Landscapist of Light | 4/1/1966 | See Source »

...Jackie Kennedy's gayest social week since she left the White House. In the ten months since her self-imposed year of mourning ended, she has slipped gradually and gracefully back into circulation, mostly with small sit-down dinner parties at home. Last week, in New York and Boston, she moved back into the world's whirl with a will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Society: Graceful Entrance | 10/1/1965 | See Source »

Copenhagen is a swinging town with the gayest nightclubs in Scandinavia and an easy tolerance that leads Danish girls to say, "I'd rather have a Negro boy friend than a Swede any day." It also boasts the Berlingske Tidende, one of the great newspapers of Europe, and a Premier, Jens Otto Krag, who has not only outstanding skill but also one of Denmark's favorite actresses as a wife. Copenhagen's Tivoli Gardens may be the world's finest pleasure park; there, most summer nights the fireworks splash the city with light, and a cannon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scandinavia: And a Nurse to Tuck You In | 7/3/1964 | See Source »

MOZART: PIANO CONCERTOS NOS. 19 AND 20 (Columbia). The rapport between Pianist Rudolf Serkin and Conductor George Szell dates back to their childhood in Vienna, but seldom have they made more of it than in this nonpareil performance of Mozart in his gayest (19) and blackest (20) moods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Apr. 3, 1964 | 4/3/1964 | See Source »

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